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San Carlos de Bariloche Airport

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Elevation AMSL
  
2,776 ft / 846 m

7,703
  
2,348

Code
  
BRC

Phone
  
+54 294 440-5016

Serves
  
Bariloche

11/29
  
7,703

2,348
  
Asphalt

Elevation
  
846 m

Province
  
Río Negro Province


Operator
  
Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 S.A.

Location
  
Ruta Nacional Nº 237 s/n

Address
  
Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi, Río Negro, Argentina

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San Carlos de Bariloche Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de San Carlos de Bariloche) (IATA: BRC, ICAO: SAZS), also known as Teniente Luis Candelaria Airport, is an international airport serving the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina. The airport covers an area of 1,810 hectares (4,500 acres; 7.0 sq mi) and has a 12,000-square-metre (130,000 sq ft) terminal; it is located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) out of the city.

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Accidents involving fatalities

  • 13 May 1957: A LADE Vickers VC.1 Viking, registration T-3, flew into mountainous terrain, 30 kilometres (19 mi) out of San Carlos de Bariloche. All 16 occupants of the aircraft perished in the accident.
  • 16 March 1975: A LADE Fokker F27-400M, tail number TC-72, struck a mountain, 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of the city, while on approach to the airport inbound from El Palomar. There were 52 fatalities.
  • 21 November 1977: An Austral Líneas Aéreas BAC 1-11, registration LV-JGY, that was operating a domestic non-scheduled Buenos Aires–Bariloche as Flight 9, made a premature descent and crashed into mountainous terrain on final approach to the airport, 21 kilometres (13 mi) east of the city, killing 46 of 79 occupants on board.

    • Non-fatal hull-losses

  • 16 August 1989: A LADE Fokker F28-1000C, tail number TC-51, failed to get airborne and overran the runway, being stopped by a dike.

    • References

    San Carlos de Bariloche Airport Wikipedia
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